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Cicely continued to gaze at nothings in the fire. 'For thee, she said scornfully to Katharine, 'it were better thou hadst never been born than have meddled between kings and ministers and faiths and nuns. You are not made for this world. You talk too much. Get you across the seas to a nunnery. Katharine looked at her pitifully. 'Child, she said, 'it was not I that spoke of thy menfolk.
He should not have meddled with the dogmas of his enemies: not that he was wrong in doing so, but it was not politic or wise; and he was not called upon to harmonize Scripture with science. So his enemies busily employed themselves in collecting evidence against him.
The gates were at last opened; he went to his rooms, and for some time his key would not turn in the door, the lock having been meddled with. At length he succeeded in entering, and found everything in confusion, his bed tossed and tumbled, his study-door open, and his clothes strewed about the floor.
Gifford says, the Puritans were exasperated against the stage-players by the insults heaped on them; but the cause of quarrel lay far deeper than any such personal soreness. The Puritans had attacked the players before the players meddled with them, and that on principle; with what justification must be considered hereafter.
Fate has meddled most oddly in our concerns to bring us together to-night. Almost it is as if Fate were forcing retribution at last upon him. Yet, for your sakes, I take no advantage of it, provided that he does at once as I have desired him." And now from beyond the table the Marquis spoke icily, and as he spoke his right hand stirred under the ample folds of his greatcoat.
For I do not know what I must anticipate in the future, and I wish that I had never meddled in this mischancy business of creating things I cannot manage." Queen Freydis moved in shimmering splendor toward the fireplace. She paused there, considerately looking down at the small contention of flames.
The one has positively sworn that no person touched the vase on the way to the furnace. The other as positively swears that no one meddled with the vase after it was put into the furnace. "It is granted that the word could not have been engraved after the biscuit was baked.
You may depend upon it, all will end well, and better than if you meddled in it now." "But it's so hard to be patient," pleaded Mary. "Ay, dear; being patient is the hardest work we, any of us, have to do through life, I take it. Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
"No; and on my last visit I plainly told him that I was getting sick of all this mystery; and he said that he himself was tired, and was sorry that he had ever meddled in the affair." Tantaine was not surprised at hearing this, and accounted for Catenac's change of front by the threats of Mascarin. "Well, what do you draw from this?" asked he. "That Catenac has no more information than I have.
"I would have done better never to have meddled," he said to himself remorsefully even while he gave his orders for the apprehension of Shere Ali and his companion. For he did not allow his remorse to hamper his action; he set a strong guard at the gates of the city, and gave orders that within the gates the city should be methodically searched quarter by quarter.
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